The despicable Al Franken

Other than the fact that Franken is a serial harrassar and won his election through voter fraud, he's also a despicable liar.

Ann Coulter

The pinnacle of Franken’s reckless cruelty came when he used his Senate office to champion the cause of delusional nutcase Jamie Leigh Jones when she accused completely innocent men of gang rape while she was working in Iraq.

Jones had been a civilian employee of KBR, then a subsidiary of media bête noire Halliburton. She went on a major media tour in 2007 with claims that on her fourth day in Iraq, she’d been drugged, gang-raped, anally penetrated and roughed up so badly that her breast implants ruptured — whereupon, to keep her from talking, evil KBR had her locked in a shipping container guarded by machine gun-toting men.

Think for a second. What part of that story could possibly have been true? KBR, knowing that the entire American media wanted its scalp, punished a woman for being gang-raped by its employees by holding her hostage in a shipping container surrounded by armed men? Did KBR think she’d never get home and tell anyone?

Any normal person: I’m calling B.S. on this story.

American media and Al Franken: OMG!!! The part about the shipping container gave me goosebumps!

The female doctor who examined Jones the day after her alleged attack found no evidence of gang rape, no evidence of anal rape, no evidence of a date rape drug and no evidence that her breast implants had ruptured. In fact, there was no evidence of any kind of rape: Semen samples showed she’d recently had sex with one man. (Also, KBR employees don’t carry guns.)

Before arriving in Baghdad — at age 20 — Jones had already falsely accused four men of rape in four separate incidents.

A federal grand jury refused to indict KBR or any of its employees for the alleged rape.

Jones lost her civil lawsuit demanding more than $100 million from KBR and the one man she’d had (consensual) sex with. Instead, she was ordered to pay KBR $145,000 in legal costs. She blew off the judgment by declaring bankruptcy while pocketing $175,000 from her workers’ compensation claim. (Thanks, taxpayers!)

This was the woman Franken championed, using Jones’ fantastical story to push legislation regulating employment contracts with Defense Department contractors — a gigantic taxpayer-funded boon to trial lawyers. Because of this woman’s hoax, the law was changed in a way that materially hurt our country: Either taxes had to be raised or the defense budget trimmed to make up for the trial lawyers’ slice.